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Motion of the United States for Continuance of a Detention Hearing — United States v. Desmond L. Washington

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Motion of the United States for continuance of a detention hearing in United States v. Washington, Case No. 20-CR-00011-DGK, in the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, Western Division, Document 4, filed January 30, 2020. The motion asks the Court for an order granting a continuance of the detention hearing as provided by Section 3142(f), Title 18, United States Code. It quotes the subsection's limits on a continuance. The United States states that it desires the continuance to facilitate the acquisition of additional information regarding the defendant, to evaluate that information, and to prepare for the hearing. A certificate of service is dated January 30, 2020.

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“Motion of the United States for Continuance of a Detention Hearing — United States v. Desmond L. Washington.” Archived at Pandemic Darlings, https://pandemicdarlings.com/source-documents/court-filing-no-4-20-cr-00011-dkt-4-w-d-mo-74fdbed4c4/, SHA-256 dd42404fcfc66f5ced538c701eb36b9322b7c87a815b51053f3da6a68927df0b.

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                   IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE
                           WESTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI
                                WESTERN DIVISION

 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA,

                                Plaintiff,

         v.                                         Case No. 20-CR-00011-DGK

 DESMOND L. WASHINGTON,
 [DOB: 1/23/1993],

                                Defendant.

                         MOTION OF THE UNITED STATES FOR
                       CONTINUANCE OF A DETENTION HEARING

       Comes now the United States of America, by the United States Attorney for the Western

District of Missouri, and does hereby move the Court for its order granting a continuance of the

detention hearing as provided by Section 3142(f), Title 18, United States Code.

                                SUPPORTING SUGGESTIONS

       Title 18, United States Code, Section 3142(f) provides that the appropriate judicial officer

shall hold a hearing to determine whether any condition or combination of conditions set forth in

Section 3142(c) will reasonably assure the appearance of a defendant as required and the safety

of any other person and the community when the attorney for the government moves for a

detention hearing provided by said subsection, or upon the appropriate judicial officer's own

motion, also as provided by Section 3142(f).

       Subsection (f) of Section 3142 provides: "The hearing shall be held immediately upon

the person's first appearance before the judicial officer unless that person, or the attorney for the

government seeks a continuance. Except for good cause, a continuance on motion of the person




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may not exceed five days, and a continuance on motion of the attorney for the government may

not exceed three days. During a continuance, the person shall be detained . . . ."

       The United States desires the continuance to facilitate the acquisition of additional

information regarding the above defendant, to evaluate the said information, and to prepare for

the hearing.

                                                      Respectfully,

                                                      Timothy A. Garrison
                                                      United States Attorney

                                             By       /s/ Caleb J. Aponte

                                                      Caleb J. Aponte
                                                      Special Assistant United States Attorney

                                                      Charles Evans Whittaker Courthouse
                                                      400 East 9th Street, Fifth Floor
                                                      Kansas City, Missouri 64106
                                                      Telephone: (816) 426-3122


                                CERTIFICATE OF SERVICE

       The undersigned hereby certifies that a copy of the foregoing was delivered on January
30, 2020, to the CM-ECF system of the United States District Court for the Western District of
Missouri, and a copy of the foregoing will be hand-delivered to the defendant at his first
appearance before a judicial officer.

                                                      /s/ Caleb J. Aponte

                                                      Caleb J. Aponte
                                                      Special Assistant United States Attorney




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